Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang brings to Meta knowledge of what everyone else is doingAlexandr Wang, Scale AI co-founder, secures a massive investment from Meta. Mark Zuckerberg hires Wang to his superintelligence group. Wang...
17 Jun, 2025, 09.47 PM IST
Apple’s India pivot; Cloud, AI fuel Alphabet's gainApple is seeking to assemble all iPhones sold in the US in India by next year, the Financial Times reported. This and more in today’s ETtec...
25 Apr, 2025, 09.57 PM IST
Musk’s DOGE sets up conflict-of-interest clash for billionairePresident Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, focusing on federal IT modernization to sa...
27 Jan, 2025, 03.59 PM IST
What happens after the TikTok ban?The US Supreme Court will hear arguments from TikTok and ByteDance seeking to block a law signed by Joe Biden, which would ban TikTok on Ja...
06 Jan, 2025, 10.02 PM IST
IT CEOs' salary in FY24; Wipro offers 85% variable payHappy Wednesday! Top bosses at some of the country’s leading IT firms took home enhanced salary packages last fiscal. More on this on today...
05 Jun, 2024, 07.17 AM IST
Google illegally cut contract staffers who worked on AI, union allegesThe Alphabet Workers Union accused the internet giant of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for org...
05 Aug, 2023, 06.01 PM IST
Google illegally cut contract employees working on AI, alleges labour unionThe workers, whose jobs have included improving the quality of answers in Google’s search engine and artificial intelligence chatbot, are e...
04 Aug, 2023, 05.09 PM IST
Google’s AI chatbot is trained by humans who say they’re overworked, underpaid and frustratedIt’s an increasingly thankless job. Six current Google contract workers said that as the company entered a AI arms race with rival OpenAI o...
13 Jul, 2023, 10.17 PM IST
Inside the subsea cable firm secretly helping America take on ChinaOver the next month, the ship's crew covertly laid an underwater fiber-optic cable to the military base, an operation code-named "Big Wave,...
07 Jul, 2023, 09.11 AM IST
Petitioners against Google get relief from Madras HC; Byju’s plans more job cutsThe Madras High Court has been asked to play Solomon by a clutch of companies in their ongoing battle against Google over its billing pract...
08 Jun, 2023, 08.42 PM IST
Microsoft beefs up ChatGPT and Bing in wide-ranging AI product launchAmong key changes is the rollout of live search results from Bing to ChatGPT, the viral chatbot from its partner OpenAI whose answers origi...
23 May, 2023, 09.09 PM IST
Apple delays bonuses for some, limits hiring in latest cost-cutting effortThe shift will reduce the frequency of bonuses for a portion of Apple’s corporate workforce. Separately, the company is limiting hiring for...
15 Mar, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
Inside Google's shadow workforce of contract labourersContractors are on the rise at Google as the company spreads into new markets, such as devices and corporate services, which demand a large...
26 Jul, 2018, 10.53 AM IST